Sep 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Managing a portfolio to modernize & unify PayPal's data assets across subsidiaries into a single unified source of truth for powering Enterprise business use cases across the organization.
• Planning & prioritizing business requests, driving trade offs: long terms vision with tactical short term gains. Manage cross matrix'ed set of product, engineering and business stakeholders.
• Define roadmap, strategy to manage entire lifecycle of data management from data acquisition, transform, harmonize, unify, govern and archival policy, architect for modernizing PayPal subsidiary data on cloud. Ensure seamless unified data governance, quality and handling of PII data. Hired & managed multiple teams of engineers, architects.
• Successfully managed the modernization of petabyte scale Enterprise Data Warehouse, platform and solutions from on-prem Hadoop to GCP cloud within 4 quarters. Planned and managed cost optimization initiatives which resulted in significant $$ savings for the data org.
• Envisioned a 'Unified Ingestion Platform' strategy. Managed core engineering team which designed, developed and productionalized a multi tenant solution resulting in 5X improvement in turn around times for new business use cases onboarding. Ensured scalable solution for processing peta byte data, improved data quality all round (achieving 100% data completeness due to robust design), integrated compliance across the data lifecycle across multiple tenants.
• Architect and modernize different business use cases catering to high volume, low latency use cases to high volume batch based analytical use cases. Managed and designed streaming framework to manage PII and other sensitive data handling at scale.

Nov 2020 – Aug 2021 · 9 mos

• Strategize and managed multiple data products to support Nike's Customer Direct Offense.
• Hired and managed multiple cross functional teams to architect event driven / real time systems.
• Pioneered teams that built and implemented real time data integration pipelines, replacing commercial technology leading to significant $$ savings.
• Managed teams that pioneered evaluation and adoption of new technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, Apache Ranger, Apache Nifi, Redshift, EMR) on the cloud platform.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Consulting Fortune 500 clients in financial, pharma and banking space to modernize existing legacy platform (on-prem, traditional) data workloads & BI platforms to cloud & distributed platforms. Managing and leading conversations on technology evaluation, cost vs ROI benefits.
• Driving emerging technology portfolios such IOT, conversational AI, multi cloud and data in motion.
• Managed cloud implementation, modernization, conversational ai SAAS platform development for marquee clients.
• Managed a team of full stack engineers to build a proprietary self service conversational AI product -platform 'ChatX'. The platform was deployed for a major pharma client, allowing business users to build chatbots in a self service manner and reducing need for human front line customer touch point.
• Hiring and managing teams of architects & engineers, cross functional full stack engineers.
• Driving Pre Sales - Go to Market strategy, architectural artifacts & POC for client demos. Leading conversations on modernization, working on proposals, creating presentations for senior leadership presentations.
• Built the Google Cloud practise, Data/BI Analytics and Conversational AI capability.

Sep 2013 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Led small teams to deliver Data / BI and Analytics platforms, data warehousing solutions and decision analytics systems for Banking and Financial services clients.
• Grooming junior developers on best practices.
• Worked on pre sales activities Banking / FSI focused, contributed to solution architecture, planning and strategy. Developed market facing solutions to be demo'ed to clients.
• Researched and published point of view on upcoming changes in enterprise data management space.
• Led the BI Visualization capabilities within the Data and Analytics practices.

Aug 2010 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs

• IBM Certified Cognos Architect & SME. Worked for cross sector clients.
• Architecting and implementing the best practices for scalable data warehouse, data analytics systems for Fortune 500 clients.
• Implemented several green field and migration projects for multiple clients. Architected, developed, designed & orchestrated data pipelines, data marts and data analytics warehouse. Data modelling for meeting different use cases. Enabling last mile by creating visualization reporting (BI reporting & OLAP based reporting).

Sep 2007 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Designed and developed ETL / data pipelines for building enterprise data marts for use as a decision support system for enterprise business of Fortune 50 pharma client.
• Cross functional areas - Supply Chain Optimization, Financial Regulatory reporting, Advanced planning and forecasting. Designed and developed enterprise data models (using Cognos Framework Manager), enabled self service reporting for 1000+ users.
• Tuned SQL transformation pipelines at scale, reducing compute time and improving resource utilization.
• Designed and developed BI reports used for executive reporting and decision making for business users in supply chain, marketing and sales.
• Developed PL/SQL scripts and tuned SQL at scale for supporting complex calculation for advance planning, supply chain metrics reporting.
• Designed and developed OLAP cube to be used as a platform for self service and canned BI reporting.